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Beryl
Every dispatch filed on Beryl, in order, so you can watch the call sharpen from first mention to the last word.
9Dispatches
9Days · JUN 29–JUL 7
I-26Tropics
FIGURE 1
JUN 29 · I-26 TROPICS Forecast to become a major hurricane in the Caribbean
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JUL 3 · I-26 TROPICS Concerning northward model trend increases threat to Texas
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JUL 5 · I-26 TROPICS Potential for rapid intensification prior to landfall major concern
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JUL 7 · I-26 TROPICS Possibility of Category 2
The route · every exit
- Exit 1 · JUN 29 Forecast to become a major hurricane in the Caribbean
- Exit 2 · JUN 30 · Subscribers Beryl has rapidly intensified to Category 4 east of the Caribbean
- Exit 3 · JUL 1 · Subscribers Beryl nearing Category 5 in the Caribbean
- Exit 4 · JUL 2 · Subscribers Jamaica under serious threat of major hurricane conditions
- Exit 5 · JUL 3 Concerning northward model trend increases threat to Texas
- Exit 6 · JUL 5 Potential for rapid intensification prior to landfall major concern
- Exit 7 · JUL 5 · Subscribers Major hurricane potential along Texas coast around Corpus Christi
- Exit 8 · JUL 6 · Subscribers Hurricane warnings up for Texas coastline
- Exit 9 · JUL 7 Possibility of Category 2
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Why I-26?
Tropical stories ride Interstate 26, after the 26 °C sea-surface temperature often used as a rough threshold for tropical development.
26 °C
The sea-surface temperature often used as a rough threshold for tropical development; the shield number of this road.
Invest
An area the Hurricane Center is investigating, numbered 90–99 with a basin letter, before it has a name.
ACE
Accumulated Cyclone Energy: a season's wind, squared and summed every six hours. Climatology sets the scale.